As many of us know who have looked into modifying our Fabias, there aren't many options for visual aftermarket parts, specifically for the MK3 Fabia, which makes sense as its less popular for modifying than it's VAG counterparts such as the Polo and Ibiza.

 

I tend to spend an unhealthy amount of time on Photoshop playing about with different concepts and designs.  The latest edition being an aftermarket headlight and tail light design which take design cues from existing products for previous generation Fabias and other new cars in the Skoda range.  Now this is of course a concept, not a real product.  However I do plan on creating some prototype in the future, it just requires some saving up

 

For the headlights, the idea here is to place an LED halo around the projector light with the option of being RGB, then the chrome highlights in the existing light would be replaced with backlit acrylic strips like in the current Octavia, Superb, and other models in the range.  There's also the new LED DRL strip in the same style as the ones which can be found on aftermarket MK1 Fabia lights.  As for the indicator, and standard DRL placement, this would be converted to a dynamic sweeping LED indicator.

 

 

As for the rear lights, the base would use the facelift LED rear light clusters with some modification.  The main changes with this light being the additional LED light bar serving as a dynamic sweeping indicator.  The rest of the lights remain unchanged, however the existing location for the indicator would be repurposed as a retro reflector as the facelift LED lights don't include this with the reflectors now being located in the rear bumper.  This would make it legal to use on pre-facelift Fabias.

 

 

This is all of course, just a concept.  However what are your thoughts on the idea of these aftermarket style DIY lights.

 

Edited 12 January, 20215 yr by TheFozzy

Fine until the budget LED strips fail. And they will. Then your left with and expensive repair.

On 12/01/2021 at 16:44, Planetse said:

Fine until the budget LED strips fail. And they will. Then your left with and expensive repair.

Who said anything about budget LED strips

 

I'm planning to get some addressable Neopixel LEDs from Adafruit.

I really like the look of the facelift tail lights, shame you have to mess around with wiring and coding just to get them to work on pre facelift.

27 minutes ago, Aviii said:

I really like the look of the facelift tail lights, shame you have to mess around with wiring and coding just to get them to work on pre facelift.

Shouldn't be too hard to do, you just have to swap some of the pins around, and the coding can be done in vcds or obd11 pretty easily

Really? I thought you needed a different rear loom to plug in. I've got the cheap OBD2 plug but I doubt it will do the same as vcds. For now though, I've managed to change how the rear DRLs look.

Did you eventually finish the lights?